1. Jarrit Locke and Hayley Czesnik
The Bengal Tiger
Jarrit Locke and Hayley Czesnik

2. Where do the Tigers live?
Primarily found in India
Smaller populations in Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, China and Myanmar

4. Population
It is the most numerous of all tiger subspecies with fewer than 2,500 left in the wild.
The creation of India’s tiger reserves in the 1970s helped to stabilize numbers, but are still at risk from poaching.

6. Panthera tigris tigris
Weighs around 550 pounds
Nearly 10 feet in length
Prefers dry and wet deciduous forests, grassland and temperate forests, mangrove forests.

7. Tiger Populations

8. Tigers average life span is 8 to 10 years.
A tigers roar can be heard from 2 miles away.
Tigers use their distinctive coats as camouflage (no two have exactly the same stripes).
A hungry tiger can eat as much as 60 pounds in one night, though they usually eat less.

9. Females give birth to litters of two to six cubs, which they raise with little or no help from the male.
Cubs cannot hunt until they are 18 months old and remain with their mothers for two to three years.

10. Why are the tigers endangered?
Tigers are hunted as trophies, and also for body parts that are used in traditional Chinese medicine. All five remaining tiger subspecies are endangered, and many protection programs are in place.

11. There were eight tiger subspecies at one time, but three became extinct during the 20th century.
Over the last 100 years, hunting and forest destruction have reduced tiger populations from hundreds of thousands of animals to perhaps fewer than 2,500.

12. Quiz Time
How far can a tigers roar be heard from?
Up to 2 miles away

13. Quiz Time
Primarily where are these tigers located?
India

14. Quiz Time
How long can the Bengal tiger get?
10 ft. long

15. Quiz Time
What is the average life span of the Bengal tiger?
8 to 10 years

16. There are 5 species of tigers still alive.
Quiz Time
How many tiger species are still alive?
There are 5 species of tigers still alive.

17. Works Cited
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